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Today’s Creative Corner and Font Fetish article is on this beautiful Samantha Script font. This is one of my favorites. It comes with several stylish letters, ligatures, ornaments and catchwords – at an extremely great price if you watch for the sale. MightyDeals.com has deals every day. And, so far every time I have visited the website and looked up this font it was been on sale for $17, normally $75! Go there now and download it or keep an eye out weekly.

I have personally used this font on several designs since I’ve installed it. I love it. The latest design was the invitation and party elements for my daughter’s third birthday which was a Cinderella theme. This font is so elegant, girly and easy to read. It looks great to use at weddings, branding, greeting cards, business cards, marketing and more!

My husband and I started saving wine corks and putting them in a vase for decoration, but after a couple years, we had WAY too many corks. What was I going to do with all these? Throw them away; I’d been saving them for so long! Do something with them; but what?! I’m not really creative when it comes to crafts, but that’s why Pinterest exists right?

So I looked through Pinterest for cork ideas. There’s literally tons of ideas, but the one I was really interested in making was the cork initial like I found here. I could do a W for our last name, then either hang it on the wall or display it on a shelf. Pretty cool! I thought I had enough corks for this, but it turns out you need a LOT of corks to fill the letter I got, so my MIL helped 🙂

Once I got all the corks together, I realized some were different heights. So I found a short one and cut all the rest to match. I wasn’t worried about them being perfectly even, but there were some really long ones, and a 1/4 inch height difference would bug me.

I arranged all of the corks on my W, to make sure I had enough, and everything looked ok. One thing I really liked about this was the differences in the cork color depending on the type of wine. I wanted to make sure the red tinged ones weren’t all grouped together in one spot.

It turns out my friends drink a lot more red wine than me, so after I used up my corks and started on the ones my family gave me, I had to go back through and rearrange. The first half was almost all tan and the second half was almost all red! At the end, this is what it looked like.

Look at all those beautiful shades!!! Now I was at the part I was most worried about: the corks were arranged exactly how I wanted, but how do I glue them down without messing up everything I just did? I didn’t want to take them all off while trying to keep the same position of all the colors, so I ended up just picking each cork up individually, then glueing it down. It was so, amazingly easy. What I thought would be the hardest part was actually the easiest.

I started at the bottom left side of the W, and worked my way up. Just pick up one cork while trying not to knock the rest over, put a small dab of hot glue, then gently put it back in position. I’m still amazed at how easy it was. Crazy easy. Glueing all the corks took me maybe 20 minutes. Awesome. I let the glue dry for a minute and now I have an awesome wine cork decoration to display in my house!

I’m not the only one who’s saved corks but doesn’t know what to do with them now right? What fun projects have you done with corks?

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Something fun to do with all those extra wine corks you have laying around…

I have been loving this calligraphy font. I downloaded it awhile ago, but just started using it. It’s so fun yet elegant. It’s called Aura Blue. I most recently used it on my gender reveal party invitation. I used this font in the “She” and the date below.

It comes in a regular and bold weight. There are 349 glyphs with swashes and alternate characters. There are long tails, short tails and curly swashes. It would work great for weddings, blog design, stationary, logos and so much more.

I recently used one of my newest fonts. The Vienna Hotel font has a rustic, vintage feel that is still cute. I used this handmade typeface on my best friend’s “baby sprinkle” invitation. She’s having her third baby and already have all the necessary items. So, we created a “Baby Sprinkle” for a simple get-together, rather than a full baby shower. Her theme include cute woodland creatures. The invitation turned out really adorable.

The Vienna Hotel font can be used for several occasions like weddings, logos and more. In the download you’ll receive the open type font and hand-drawn vector extras.

I know. I’m posting about Easter on St Patrick’s Day. Normally I’m a strict believer in taking holidays in order. I wish stores took this approach as well; such as Christmas does not come after Halloween, Thanksgiving does. I don’t want to be putting up my tree and singing about Rudolph before I stuff myself with turkey.

However, Easter is almost here, and I wanted everyone to have time to try out these cool Easter egg dying techniques. This was our first year dying Easter eggs, and it was actually pretty fun, although I remembered half way through why we haven’t tried this before now. It was fun, but four kids was a lot to wrangle.

I had been hesitant in the past because our kids were so little and I didn’t want a huge food coloring mess all over my kitchen, the kids, and the house. This year all the kids were a little older, it was warm enough to dye them outside, and we went for it. We tried 3 ‘new’ techniques, and then did the traditional vinegar and food coloring technique to see how they all compared.

Ever wondered the name of the font that we showcase in our logo? Well, wonder no more! This month’s font fetish post is about this fun, doodley typeface. This particular font has quickly become one of my favorites in some of my latest designs.

The name of this curly font is Bellwethers. It’s fancy, doodley, and hand-drawn. It comes packed with swashes galore!

We received some compliments on the theme we’re using for our blog. So, I thought it would be fun to share and talk about it for our first Creative Corner post.

First, a little background on our Creative Corner, the designer’s favorite section on the blog! My niche and first love is programming. Specifically, I love developing websites. From there, I wanted to learn more about graphic design, the other side of my development team. I always admired the creatives and the magic they made in their little back corner office.

Back in 2011, I became a self-taught designer. Though I’ve dabbled in website design, my real passion fell with wedding and party designing. This is why Farrally Paperie, LLC was born. And, why I wanted to open a section specifically as a design outlet. Creative Corner can be used by designers and bloggers alike. I’ll be sharing all my favorite fonts, vector packs and WordPress themes, too! I’ll try to post some tutorials on graphic design from time to time. I really hope Creative Corner can be a place where designers (and bloggers) will be as a useful resource.

When I decided to become a blogger, I sought out one of my favorite design sources, Creative Market, to find a WordPress theme. There are a ton! I happened to stumble across this one called, Kassandra. I love the minimalist design with the elegant feel. It’s clean and crisp. It’s great for fashion, feminine and lifestyle blogs.

Hello, Lovelies! I'm proud to say that I'm a follower of Christ, a mother of two and an always improving wife to the most wonderful stay-at-home daddy. I struggle on a regular basis to find the positives that are sometimes masked by negatives. Join my journey as I learn to find the inspiration in this crazy thing called life.

Hello everyone! I'm a stay at home mom to two sets of twins, and even though everyone says to enjoy it when they're young, I go back on forth on wishing they would get older and longing for them to be babies again. Sometimes I need to slow down and just enjoy the moment. Thanks for joining me on this journey, and I look forward to sharing my outlook and excerpts on life with 4 under 5.